{"id":115999,"date":"2021-07-11T17:05:12","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T00:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=115999"},"modified":"2021-07-11T17:05:12","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T00:05:12","slug":"if-germany-accounted-for-their-crimes-why-cant-us-uk-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/07\/11\/if-germany-accounted-for-their-crimes-why-cant-us-uk-eu\/","title":{"rendered":"If Germany accounted for their crimes why can\u2019t US\/UK & EU?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The\nEU\/US & UK believe themselves to be & demands us to believe, they are\nparagons of virtue & models of human rights. This supremacy-mindset created\nHitler who told the Jews how to behave & annihilated those that refused to\ndo so. Germans and Germany were held collectively accountable for the crimes of\nHitler & to this day Germany continues to pay reparations. A similar\nsupremacist policy was adopted during EU\/US & British colonial rule which continues\nin neocolonial form. However, these nations without atoning for their sins,\nhave no right to be pointing fingers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

European\ncolonizers committed grave acts against humanity that come nowhere near the\nUN-defined war crimes & crimes against humanity terminology. Without\naccounting for these crimes how can the European Bloc\/ UK & US present\nthemselves as paragons of virtue championing human rights?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Papal Bulls divided the world initially between Spain &\nPortugal in 1492 and from there onwards till 19th<\/sup>century the Europeans colonized Americas, Asia & Africa and\nbuilt their nations plundering territories already inhabited. These war\ncriminals were glorified & celebrated with annual national holidays \u2013\nChristopher Columbus Day! None of the former colonizers wish to revisit their\ncolonial imperial past. Their schoolbooks do not feature any of its nefarious\nacts overseas. Why? Whatever is spoken is only to show off how they ruled with\niron fist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The\nwhite man speaks with a forked tongue<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spain\nheld control over 35 colonies across the world. Portugal\u2019s empire extended\nacross 50 countries for trade, to spread Catholicism & \u2018civilize\u2019 natives\nand influence the political, economic & social systems of countries they\ncolonized. Even by 2013, France controlled 2.7million people in former colonies\nthat began from 1605.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Civilizing Mission\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Completely\nignoring that the lands and territories the Europeans descended upon had rich\nand ancient cultures of their own, the Europeans set out to \u2018civilize\u2019 these\nnatives by replacing native traditions\/customs\/cultures with European language,\nlaws etc. This is nothing but cultural genocide. The natives had to give up\ntheir religion & embrace Catholicism\/Christianity in order to receive\neducation\/jobs or be \u2018accepted\u2019 by the Europeans. How many in the West think\nlike Jules Ferry higher races have a right over the lower races, they have a\nduty to civilize the inferior races\u201d. How did the whites become a \u2018higher race\u2019\n\u2013 what makes whites think they are a \u2018higher race\u2019 and who gave them th right\nto \u2018civilize\u2019 people?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nwhite rulers annihilated the spirituality of the natives simply because they\ndidn\u2019t pray to the white God\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/thisisafrica.me\/african-identities\/africa-colonisation\/<\/a>\u2013\nAfrica before Colonization<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nButcher of Congo \u2013 Leopold II of Belgium killed millions of Congolese. Where is\nthe accountability for these crimes? These were state-sponsored religiously\napproved mass murder!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Belgium\u2019s Bloody Congo Rule<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-53017188<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Descendants of Europeans<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\ncolonials left a legacy of ethnic groups created by cohabitating with natives.\nThe Dutch departed the colonies creating ethnic groups of Dutch ancestry \u2013\nBoers in South Africa (Afrikaaners 10million), Burghers in Si Lanka, Indo\npeople in Indonesia, Creoles in Suriname where Dutch remains the official\nlanguage. US Presidents Theodore & Franklin Roosevelts were of Dutch\norigin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What West did and is doing to\nAfrica <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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